Islamabad: India lodges a heavy protest and summoned Pakistan High Commissioner after a Pakistani court on Monday had cancelled the detention order of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008, 26/11 Mumbai attack.
Ministry of External Affairs had summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit.
India had strongly raises the issue of suspension of detention order of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
The Islamabad high court (IHC) had suspended the detention order for the Lashkar-e-Taiba operative which in effect makes him a free man.
The court said it was not convinced with the arguments given by the government to detain him.
The Pakistan government is planning to appeal against the decision.
Notify that bail had been granted to Lakhvi on December 18 by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in the Mumbai attack case citing lack of evidence against him, but before he could be released from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail, the government detained him for 30 days under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
The ATC’s decision came a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif insisted his government would not differentiate against terrorists and fight against all militant outfits in the country.
Notify that 166 people had been died in the terror attack of Mumbai on 26 November 2008 in which the main accuse was Lakhvi and six other accused were Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younis Anjum.
They had been charged with planning and executing the Mumbai attacks.
Bureau Report
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